Customizing the X Front End, Handling Large Lists, and Generating Surface Plots

all buttons of that specific dialog box, and the fourth might refer to a specific button of that dialog box. Finally, the attribute might be a color of that button, or the font within the button. Resource settings are rarely referred to in such an exact manner for two reasons. First, the user usually wants to be able to change many resources at once, such as the font in all dialog boxes. Second, many resource names are quite long and unintelligible. Instead of specifying a resource completely, you can use wildcards. A wildcard, represented by an asterisk (*), simply tells X to set the attribute for all subobjects of an appropriate class. The asterisk is used in place of the period in the resource setting. For example, inserting the line: